The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realities of life at the top of the State Security Service are shown, their ordinary and "sweet" life with its joys, intrigues, betrayals, and tragedies. Russia is like a whirlpool that sucks in and destroys.
Ute Lemper
as Anna
Aleksandr Feklistov
as Sasha
Aleksey Kortnev
as
Evgeniy Sidikhin
as
Natalya Kolyakanova
as
Dmitriy Dykhovichnyy
as
Sergey Makovetskiy
as
Vladimir Simonov
as
Pyotr Zaychenko
as
Aleksandr Baluev
as